"Suffer a Sea Change": Spatial Crisis, Maritime Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia

Splendid isolation: ‘Philosopher’s islands’ and the reimagination of space

“…'This preference for insularity,' Gillis suggests, 'would be one of Greece's legacies to Western civilisation ' (2004, p. 9). The normative territorialization and isolation of the political in Greek culture, its literal grounding, is the first stage in the subsequent history of the continuous (re-spatialization of governance (Linebaugh and Rediker, 2000;Marzec, 2002;Balasopoulos, 2006Balasopoulos, , 2008.…”